[Elecraft] Power Pole connectors

[Fred Jensen]

When I retired, I began learning how to cook so I could make dinner a 
couple nights each week.  There are many web sites with recipes, I use 
AllRecipes most of the time.  It has a provision for people to rate the 
recipes.  For a recipe with 100 ratings, most will be high and comments 
speak highly of it.  Some of the comments will tell you the same recipe 
is totally rotten and results in inedible food.

So it goes with APP's.  This subject returns to the list periodically 
just like a short-period comet.  We should go into the list archive and 
give each of the APP comments a code number.  Then, when the comet 
returns, we could save all those keystrokes by just using the number, 
since the comments really never change.

My opinion on APP's is 34G:  They work fine, I've never had a connection 
dislodge. :-)

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 50th Running of the Cal QSO Party 3-4 Oct 2015
- www.cqp.org

On 2/17/2015 7:09 AM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
> Chris,
>
> This subject does come up from time to time, and the most common cause
> for weak APP connectors is due to improper assembly.
> Look in the end of your APP connectors.  If you can see the tip of the
> spring that is supposed to lock the connection blades in place, you have
> not properly latched the connection blades in place.
> Push on the back of the connector blade until it latches over the end of
> the spring.  It may take a goodly amount of force.
>
> Properly assembled APP connectors normally have sufficient pull-out
> resistance for all but the most unusual forces.
>
> 73,
> Don W3FPR